2011-09-04

Featured Comments: Week of 2011 August 28

Reader DarkDuck said, "I also tried to create Live USB for Mageia and failed. It was Live CD for me that time. 400Mb is way too much even for KDE version. My Mageia only takes ~170Mb freshly booted."
Commenter Mechatotoro, whose blog about Mandriva you should all read, said, "Thanks for the review. I installed Mandriva 2011 and I'm giving it a
test drive. I must say that I'm not crazy about the ROSA panel, but it
the environment gets more to my liking once that the pager and the
effects are enabled."
An anonymous reader said, "No codecs? I've just installed and they were all there, although mp4
files played without sound. Since this is probably aimed at the home
user who double boots, I was surprised I couldn't find any tool to mount
a non-Mandriva partiton. You can set a shortcut for switching
workspaces, but it's buried deep in the configuration options, in the
usual KDE way."
Commenter Paul, Cork had this response to the other commenters' mentions of Mageia: "i am quite disappointed with this Mageia vs Mandriva commentary, i have
in the past number of years seen the mandriva team and community do some
great work and a recent example being 2010.2 a fantastic and stable
distro, i in the above comments not seen one comment stating that 2010.2
has extended support and if users are not happy with Mandriva 2011 how
about returning back to 2010.2 and letting Mandriva community know this,
i respect the Mageia fork however just remember where it came from and
that it would not have existent if it were not for Mandriva, Mandriva is
obviously in financial difficulty and i can not understand why
attacking rather than working as a Linux community is being done a total
shame and prob the reason why Linux as a Desktop will never go anymore
than a hobby , to many distro's out there and not enough unity" (To be honest I felt this was fanning the same flames it supposedly intended to put out.)

Thanks to all those who commented on that post this past week. I just moved back into my dorm room, so I'll definitely have at least one post this week. I also hope to have a distribution review out whenever that distribution is released, but I don't know when that will be. Aside from that, now that I'm getting back into the swing of college and work, while I will try to post whenever I can, don't expect anything particularly. In any case, if you like what I write, please continue subscribing and commenting!